Guyana’s ‘development’ will require ‘all hands on deck’

By Karen Abrams, MBA

“Without women’s empowerment and gender equality, societies will not be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and their full development potential,” Claudinah Ramosepele, South Africa’s delegate to the Sixty-sixth UN General Assembly Third Committee, 2011.

This statement still applies to Guyana. Our population is too small, and our nation’s structural development requires too much work for any one gender,